Social psychology Ph.D. candidate, Peter Fisher, is the inaugural recipient of the Jenessa Shapiro Memorial Graduate Award.

 

By Jeannie Barber-Choi  | March 2022

In February 2019, the Jenessa Shapiro Memorial Graduate Award was established to honor the late professor Jenessa Shapiro, who was known for her impactful research on stereotype threat, discrimination and prejudice. She was also known as a champion of women and underrepresented minority groups in STEM.

Today, her legacy lives on through the many students and colleagues she supported and inspired; through her research that provided evidence for creating better practices to promote diversity, equity and inclusion; and through awards established in her honor. The Jenessa Shapiro Memorial Graduate Award at UCLA extends her work and vision, aimed at creating a more just and equitable society, through graduate student research.

Peter Fisher, a fourth year Ph.D. student, mentored by social psychology professor Tiffany Brannon, is the inaugural recipient of this award.

Here, Fisher talks about the research that this award will allow him to do. (3:33 minute listen)